我始终相信，根本没有所谓什么伟大的“体育报道”，也没有所谓什么伟大的“商业报道”，任何一篇真正会优秀的报道，都将触动所有愿意花一点功夫来阅读的人们。就像Gary Smith写下的那些文字。像Remember his name的开头。

Even as a boy Pat Tillman felt a destiny, a need to do the right thing whatever it cost him. When the World Trade Center was attacked on 9/11, he thought about what he had to do and then walked away from the NFL and became an Army Ranger....

同样，真正伟大的记者和伟大的作者，也不仅能在一个局限的领域里写出耐人回味的句子。就像Thomas L. Friedman，这个因为《世界是平的》而为中国人所熟知的名字。他随手写的高尔夫，胜过太多在这篇起伏的草场上来往多年的所谓专项记者了。

That's the point. Baseball, basketball and football are played on flat surfaces designed to give true bounces. Golf is played on an uneven terrain designed to surprise. Good and bad bounces are built into the essence of the game. And the reason golf is so much like life is that the game — like life — is all about how you react to those good and bad bounces. Do you blame your caddy? Do you cheat? Do you throw your clubs? Or do you accept it all with dignity and grace and move on, as Watson always has. Hence the saying: Play one round of golf with someone and you will learn everything you need to know about his character.